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October 18, 2013 16:28
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- Obama nominates drone program proponent to lead DHS
- President Barack Obama has chosen a former Pentagon attorney who defended the extrajudicial killing of American citizens to man the helm of the United States Department of Homeland Security and replace outgoing Secretary Janet Napolitano. 22
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US debt surges $328 billion in single day, surpassing $17 trillion for first time
- Just one day after President Barack Obama signed into law a bipartisan deal to end the government shutdown and avoid default, the US debt surged a record $328 billion, the first day the government was able to borrow money. 48
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‘Constant agony:’ Anti-torture activist undergoes public force feeding to protest Gitmo (VIDEO)
- An anti-torture activist underwent a nasal-tube feeding outside an appeals court in Washington DC to protest the abusive force-feeding of hunger strikers at and the practice of indefinite detention at Guantánamo Bay. 13
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Obamacare sites pirated copyrighted web scripts
- The list of complaints waged at the White House over its Healthcare.gov site continues to grow, but the latest incident involving the online home of the Affordable Care Act is one that could end with legal action being taken. 18
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Stanford neuroscientist: 'We’re now able to eavesdrop on the brain in real life'
- Neuroscientists at Stanford University have made a major breakthrough with regards to how the human brain engages in quantitative thought, and some say it’s opening the door for being able to someday eavesdrop on the mind’s inner-workings. 17
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California moves to legalize marijuana in 2016
- A new poll shows that a large majority of Californians is ready to legalize the recreational use of marijuana in 2016. 17
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TSA air marshal caught taking photos under skirts
- A federal air marshal was arrested after being accused of snapping cellphone photographs underneath women’s skirts and dresses as they boarded a flight in Nashville, TN on Thursday. 8
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More than 10 million legal files snared in Megaupload shutdown
- When US law enforcement officials shut down the online storage locker Megaupload they also scrubbed nearly 11 million perfectly legal files that were saved on the site, according to a new study conducted by Northeastern University in Boston. 5
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NSA failed to install anti-leak software at Snowden’s workplace - report
- The reason Edward Snowden managed to download highly classified documents is because the NSA failed to install anti-leak software at its Hawaii facility, where the whistleblower worked, according to US officials. 10
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Union to halt picketing after San Fran rail workers killed
- One of the primary unions on strike against the San Francisco commuter rail system will suspend picketing for a day after workers were killed by a commuter train returning from routine maintenance.
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Popular BitTorrent site isoHunt shutdown, forced to pay $110 million
- After more than a decade of facilitating a search of BitTorrent files and eluding copyright enforcers, isoHunt has agreed to shut down all of its international operations and pay the entertainment industry US$110 million. 15
Shows
Breaking the Set
6 Things You Need to Know About Next DHS Head, Whistleblower Dream Team & Etiquette for Idiots
In this episode of Breaking the Set, Abby Martin calls out Jeh Johnson, Obama’s pick for the next head of the DHS,...
October 19, 2013 04:30
The Big Picture
Obamacare Roll Out As Bad As Fox "News" Says?
Tonight’s “Big Picture Rumble” discusses how Obamacare seems to be malfunctioning only in red states, the...
October 19, 2013 07:00With a tentative budget and debt ceiling deal - albeit a temporary one - in place, the government shutdown should come to an end by Thursday...
It's Week Three - or Day 14 - of the government shutdown, and the debt-ceiling deadline will hit as early as Thursday. Over the weekend, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev...
Despite pledges from President Obama about government transparency, a new report says that, in practice, the Obama administration's actions have created a "chilling effect" on potential government sources' cooperation with journalists...
